english and digital literacies unit 7.4: experiential materials for the digital enrichment of greek...

English and Digital LiteraciesUnit 7.4: Experiential Materials for the Digital

Enrichment of Greek EFL Textbooks

Bessie MitsikopoulouSchool of Philosophy

Faculty of English Language and Literature

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Experiential Materials

1. Digital stories

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Digital stories

• Digital narratives of the reading texts.

• Visualization through pictures, copyright free videos, music and narration in the form of a video.

• They are not accompanied by activities.

• Their aim is to familiarize students with specific (especially difficult) texts.

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Digital Stories for Primary School (1/2)

4th Grade:• My day,• Halloween.

5th Grade:• British Isles (U1L3),• Dolphin Therapy (U4L1),• Mediterranean Forests

(U5L2),• Little explorers (U5L3),

• Guiness World Record (U6L2).

• El Greco (U7L1),• Shakespeare (U7L1),• Easter Day Norway

(U8L3), • Easter Day Mexico

(U8L3),• A Story about Gorillas

(U9L1).

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Digital Stories for Primary School (2/2)

6th Grade:• My name is Gwen

(U1L3),• Fairies (U3L1),• The 50 Cent Piece

(U3L2),• Wright Brothers

(U4L1),• Types of planes (U4L2),

• Montgolfier Brothers (U4L3),

• Ian the Thorpedo (U7L1).

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Digital Story: The Montgolfier Brothers

[1]

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Digital Story: The Wright Brothers

Textbook

[2]

Digital Story

[3]

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Digital Story: Let’s make koulouria

Recipe in the textbook

[4]

Digital story

[5]

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Digital Stories for Gymnasium

Α Beginners:• To Bin or not to Bin,• A Small Step.

Β Advanced:• The Way We Look,• Joined in our Diversity,• The Land Of Pharaos,• Elyths,• Feed me better.

Β Beginners:• Children Of the Forest,• Act It Out,

C:• Pompeii,• Halloween,• Guy Fawkes.

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Example of a Digital Story for Gymnasium

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2. Virtual Tours

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Short videos which are using Google Earth to present various geographical landmarks mentioned in the books (e.g. important buildings, monuments, etc).

Virtual Tours

[7]

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Virtual Tours for Gymnasium (1/2)

A Beginners:• The Parthenon (U1L3),A Advanced• British Museum (Unit 5),• The Pyramids (Unit 5),• London Eye (Unit 5),• Statue of Liberty, NY (Unit 5),• Rion-Antirion Bridge (Unit 6),• The Parthenon (Unit 6).

B Beginners:• The While Tower of

Thessaloniki (U5L1),• Tower of London (U5L1),• London Eye (U5L2),• Trafalgar Square (U5L2),• The Parthenon (U5L3),• Stonehedge (Unit 9-10).

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Virtual Tours for Gymnasium (2/2)

B Advanced:• Τhe Louvre, France (U1L3),• Aghia Sophia (U1L3),• Sydney, Opera (U1L3),• Taj Mahal (U3L7),• Pisa (U1L3),• Colosseum, Italy (U1L3).

C• The Ancient Theatre of

Epidaurus (Unit 5),• The Parthenon (U5L3).

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Virtual Tour: The Sydney Opera

[8]

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Virtual Tour: Louvre Museum

[9]

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Virtual Tours for Primary School

4th Grade:• The Ancient Theatre of

Dodoni (U3L2),• Panathenaic Stadium

(U2L3).

5th Grade:• The Parthenon (U3L2),• London Eye (U3L2),

• White Tower of Thessaloniki (U3L3),

• Trafalgar Square (U4L1),• Ancient Theatre of

Epidaurus (U7L1),• Tower of London

(U7L3).

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Virtual Tour: The Tower of Pisa

[10]

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Virtual Tour: The Acropolis

[11]

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Virtual Tour: The London Eye

[12]

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Virtual Tour: Epidaurus

[13]

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Virtual Tour: The Tower of London

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3. Seasonal songs

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Songs for Primary School (3rd – 6th Grade)

• Seasonal songs (e.g. Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day)

• Songs with lyrics in multimedia applications

[15]

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Examples of Songs

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Financing• The present educational material has been developed as part of the

educational work of the instructor.

• The project “Open Academic Courses of the University of Athens” has only financed the reform of the educational material.

• The project is implemented under the operational program “Education and Lifelong Learning” and funded by the European Union (European Social Fund) and National Resources.

Notes

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Note on History of Published Version

The present work is the edition 1.0.

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Reference Note Copyright National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Bessie Mitsikopoulou 2014. Bessie Mitsikopoulou. “English and Digital Literacies. Experiential Materials for the Digital Enrichment of Greek EFL Textbooks”. Edition: 1.0. Athens 2014. Available at: http://opencourses.uoa.gr/courses/ENL10/.

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Note of use of third parties work (1/5)

This work makes use of the following works:

Image 1: Digital Story: The Montgolfier Brothers, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 2: Unit 4 - Lesson 1 from the 6th Grade EFL Texbook, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Digital School Project.

Image 3: Digital Story: The Wright Brothers, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 4: Unit 4 - Lesson 2 from the 5th Grade EFL Texbook, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Digital School Project.

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Note of use of third parties work (2/5)

Image 5: Digital Story: Let’s make koulouria, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 6: Digital story - To bin or not to bin, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 7: Virtual Tours, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 8: Virtual Tour – The Sydney Opera, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

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Note of use of third parties work (3/5)

Image 9: Virtual Tour - Louvre Museum, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 10: Virtual tour - The Tower of Pisa, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 11: Virtual Tour - The Acropolis, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 12: Virtual Tour - The London Eye, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

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Note of use of third parties work (4/5)

Image 13: Virtual tour - Epidaurus, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 14: Virtual Tour – The Tower of London, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 15: Song - The little Drummer Boy, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

Image 16: Song - Ten little pumpkins, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.

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Image 17: Song - Mother's care, Copyright Computer Technology Institute, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Greece 3.0, Photodentro.